We had a similar problem my last startup job. The back end was a complete house of cards. I spent months trying to convince leadership we needed to shore it up.

We had a similar problem my last startup job. The back end was a complete house of cards. I spent months trying to convince leadership we needed to shore it up. I could have done it myself in a week if they let me. But they kept pivoting from one concept to another on the front end and weren't interested in fixing the back-end. I convinced myself that if we got institutional funding as they hoped, the cavalry would come in and tighten everything up. But then I asked around and found out that institutional investors don't do that. I started just collecting a paycheck instead of trying to build something, got discouraged and left.